Yugoslav Nationalists

The Yugoslav Nationalists was a nationalist faction of Yugoslav politics that formed in the aftermath of Josip Broz Tito's death in 1980. Under communist rule, Yugoslavia condemned nationalism, but some nationalists challenged state-sponsored Yugoslavism and the government's "Brotherhood and Unity" slogan during the 1960s. Nationalism skyrocketed following Tito's death, with the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts releasing a memorandum in 1986 that claimed that SR Serbia's development was eroded by support to other constituent republics. In 1987, Serb nationalists in Kosovo began to protest against the ruling communist authorities (who were predominantly Albanian), and the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, sent by President Ivan Stambolic to speak with the communist authorities, instead met with the nationalists and supported their political goals. The Nationalists would come to exert a large degree of influence during Milosevic's reign, with Milosevic's advisor Borisav Jovic advising the suspension of the autonomy of many Yugoslav republics in the late 1980s. In 1992, the Yugoslav Nationalists dissolved along with the federal government, and many Serb nationalists joined the Socialist Party of Serbia or the Serbian People's Party in Serbia, the Serb Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or other minority parties in other former Yugoslav republics.